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Climate inequality report 2025 | Climate Change: A Capital Challenge, Why Climate Policy Must Tackle Ownership
octobre 29, 2025 | WID.world

The Climate Inequality Report 2025 reveals how wealth drives the climate crisis, and proposes new policy options to address it. It builds on the 2023 ... Continuer la lecture

Upward mobility is primarily driven by labor income but almost never by capital alone
octobre 29, 2025 | WID.world

Understanding the drivers of income mobility is a central question in economics, as individuals’ incomes come from both labor and capital sources. While factor shares ... Continuer la lecture

Equality and Development: A Comparative & Historical Perspective 1800-2025
octobre 29, 2025 | WID.world

Understanding how inequality shapes economic development has long been a central question for economists, policymakers, and citizens alike. Does greater equality foster inclusiveness and productivity, ... Continuer la lecture

En France, les minorités racisées subissent de fortes pénalités salariales
septembre 30, 2025 | WID.world

En France, le modèle universaliste qui refuse de reconnaître les communautés au sein de la République rend la mesure et la mise en évidence des ... Continuer la lecture

First global database of wealth accumulation covering 1800–2025 now available
septembre 11, 2025 | WID.world

The long-run evolution of wealth has been central to debates in economic history and macroeconomics, but until now evidence has been largely confined to Western ... Continuer la lecture

Thomas Piketty’s view on billionaire taxation and wealth redistribution
septembre 8, 2025 | WID.world

On 9 April 2025, Thomas Piketty was interviewed at the “Taxing Billionaires” conference. On this occasion, he shared his views on billionaire taxation and the ... Continuer la lecture

Public ownership outperforms privatisation when an enterprise is a skill-based, natural, or network monopoly
septembre 1, 2025 | WID.world

Is public ownership or privatisation better? Throughout the 20th century, debates on public versus private ownership swung back and forth, often framed ideologically rather than ... Continuer la lecture

The recent compression of US wage inequality: tightness, turbulence, and power-biased policy
août 18, 2025 | WID.world

Since the onset of the COVID pandemic, the United States has experienced a sharp compression of wage inequality, reversing roughly one-third of the increase observed ... Continuer la lecture

Réinventer la solidarité assurantielle face aux effets inégalitaires du réchauffement climatique
juillet 16, 2025 | WID.world

Face à l’envolée du coût de ces catastrophes, il devient crucial d’identifier les populations les plus exposées. Dans cette note, Thomas Bézy et Lucas Chancel ... Continuer la lecture